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appalachiablue

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2. Glad it's to help museum operations and staff

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Sep 18, 2020, 12:17 PM

Sep 2020

in this extraordinary time, otherwise museum assocations have strict rules about deaccessioning and selling off items in collections, for good reason. These nice pictures which will very likely go into private hands will be out of public view for a long while.

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A closer look at what the Brooklyn Museum is selling off [View all] left-of-center2012 Sep 2020 OP

To me the bad part of this is..... LakeArenal Sep 2020 #1

Glad it's to help museum operations and staff appalachiablue Sep 2020 #2

Museums selling their commonwealth; the people become poorer sanatanadharma Sep 2020 #3

Why do you say a museum's collection is 'commonwealth'? left-of-center2012 Sep 2020 #4